Ice Age Skeleton for Sale on Ebay
When I saw this article, I thought, “Only on Ebay.” I don’t know if anything can top the infamous Virgin Mary Toast auction, but this one is right up there on the weirdness scale. This skeleton won’t fit in any closet. Instead it takes up most of the garage of California resident Nancy Fiddler. One of her ranch hands discovered a large tooth on her property back in 1997. An excavation unearthed a rare, nearly complete skeleton of a mastodon. The only thing missing was the tusks.
Fiddler donated the mastodon to the Oakland Museum of Natural History, where it was on display for several years until they made a replica. Whether they gave the original skeleton back or she took it, I’m not sure. But now she wants to use her sauna, and her son wants to use the garage to build hot rods. So the mastodon must go.
The minimum bid is $115,000, payable with PayPal. So far, there are no takers.
